Exhibition Theme - Service

Potato peelers

In a 1995 interview, Brooks reflected on this painting of sailors
"sitting next to a couple of cans of gasoline in their life jackets
while the convoy goes by. They were busy all the time between that kind
of thing and action stations. There was never a dull moment, when they
weren't on watch, or peeling potatoes, or doing something - They could
be sunk in one moment, or blown up, or hit a mine." Nonetheless, he
added: "A lot of the action that won the war was action like this."